20 Oct
2018
20 Oct
'18
8:51 a.m.
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 9:42 AM Noel Chiappa via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org wrote:
I recently got a decent gamers keyboard for $60. Nnice rocker switches.
Loud as hell, like the old model M battleships. Works great and has the
same feel as the old ones. Even fing glows in the dark. Has just the right
touch. No clue why you'd need a retro one to get the retro feel.
So there's something else. Some people are judgemental about it, others are
less judgmental. It's the separation from original context that I object
to.
Warner
From: Al
Kossow
The quality of modern keycaps is poor.
These guys are after mechanical boards with double-shot keytops.
There's something I'm still not quite grasping.
I can see two reasons for people liking the old keyboards:
- i) Higher quality construction
- ii) Connection, through a historial artifact, to an earlier age
Am I missing any?
I can definitely see the first (I myself find many modern keyboards to be
complete crap), but if that's _all_ it is, I'd think there'd be a market
for
modern production of quality keyboards - not a large market, true, but I'd
think it would be large enough to be worth servicing? (Unless the cost to
produce such would be so high that there wouldn't be any buyers - but that
seems at odd with some of the prices being mentioned.)
So maybe people _only_ want keyboards that have both i) and ii)?